The pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has products sold under the Novolin brand name ... regular (short-acting), NPH (intermediate-acting), or premixed NPH/regular insulin without a prescription.” ...

Not all insulin types are the same. Pharmaceutical manufacturers make long-acting, intermediate-acting, and short-acting insulin options. If you do inject insulin, the best way to start a ...

Insulin-to-carbohydrate ratios estimate how many grams of carbohydrates are covered with 1 unit of short-acting or rapid-acting insulin. For normal-weight adults, a typical starting point for ICR is 1 ...

An insulin pump is a wearable device that some people with diabetes use to get insulin, instead of getting it from an injection. The small pump runs on batteries and delivers short-acting insulin ...

To mimic physiological insulin release, both long-acting and short-acting insulin preparations are needed. After decades of optimizations to develop longer-acting insulin preparations to reduce ...

To drive excess glucose out of the blood and into the muscle and fat cells, patients can be given fast acting insulin prior to FDG administration. This study assesses if fast acting insulin causes an ...

Method A multidisciplinary working party was convened and mapped insulin prescribing, dispensing and administration. All inpatient orders above 25 units for short-acting insulin and 50 units for other ...